Therefore, this article aims to describe the aspects of the nationalist hegemony and the efforts to reproduce its power through the activation of the threat. The creation of the enclaves resulted from the armed violence of this decade it was a direct response to an emergency situation which contributed, to a certain degree, and to the territorial and political partition of the two communities. Therefore, they are studied as spaces that produce certain political activity against the “other” community, the Greek Cypriot community. The enclaves of the 1964-1974 period in Cyprus are treated as areas of exclusion and siege of the Turkish Cypriots. The first level identifies its structures and ideological aspects. The present article analyzes the emergence of the Turkish Cypriot state of exception in the period of intercommunal riots in Cyprus on two main levels. The chapter will consequently explain the role of the urban environment as a vessel for structuring the identities of Turkish-Cypriots and Greek-Cypriots in the future as we speculate a reunification scenario. The quotidian reality of the inhabitants suggests that the enforcing, manipulation, moulding and alteration of cognitive memories shape the perception of ‘the other’. By performing a thorough investigation of Nicosia’s multi-faceted environment, this chapter attempts to understand the current cultural structure between the two communities as the result of conflict. This chapter investigates the political, social and cultural parameters in the urban context as manifested through symbols and artefacts that enhance this obsession with preserving the national self. First, the failure of the city as a political institution to ensure that the diversity will still continue upon a solution of the Cyprus conflict and second, the mismanagement of ethnic diversity as a large socio-spatial concern. Appreciating the alienation between the two communities and the development of separate identities involves understanding two urban impediments.
The opening of the Lockmaci/Ledra Street checkpoint in the old section of Nicosia in 2003 resulted in subtle manifestations of temporal activities and interventions within the urban fabric. Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have been initially separated in 1963 and have been living in a completely divided island since 1974.
The urban actors consisting of the two communities that inhabit the divided island are characterised by differences in language, religion and origin. This chapter seeks to investigate the relationship between social structures rooted in conflicting identities and the urban environment in the contested context of Nicosia - the last divided city in Europe and capital of Cyprus.
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